through what this is actually going to look like. gene sperling is a longtime economic aide. he served other presidents. he has been a adviser to president biden on the campaign trail. but he is not expected at the sore money. because right now like most americans he is working remotely, has not been vaccinated yet, and is still in california according to the white house. and he won't be in the west wing doing the job for several more weeks according to the press secretary earlier today. >> that is interesting. gloria, this package, relief package is popular. is the white house worried that it won't be so popular, that popularity that wane? why this real effort to bolster this. >> well, a lot of people who were there, including the president himself, were there in 2009 when the stimulus package passed. and one of the problems with that, biden himself has said, is that they never explained the benefits of it to the american people. and it was unpopular. this bill starts out more popular. so what they're trying to do is tell the american people all the ways -- they have to plain it. this is the way it can help you. these are the child tax credits you will get. you will get money in your pocket. your vaccines will be free. it will take less time to get you vaccinated. we will reopen schools in a safe way. and on and on and on. because they know that what the republicans are doing, all of whom voted against it, what the republicans are doing is saying this is just a liberal democratic wish list. part of that -- there are programs in there that the democrats have always wanted. but this is a covid relief package. >> yeah. >> and they need to tell that to the american people so they understand and so they can give pushback to the republican opposition. >> and we did just get the 2-minute warning about a minute ago. here we go. let's listen to the president. >> when i signed the american rescue plan last week, i said help is on the way. this week i can report it isn't just on the way. it's here. sooner than many thought possible. over the next 10 days we reach two goals, giant goals. the first is 100 million shots in people's arms will have been completed within the next 10 days. and 100 million checks in people's pockets in the next ten days. shots in arms and money in pockets. that's important. the american rescue plan is already doing what it was designed to do, make a difference in people's everyday lives. we're just getting started. by the time all the money is distributed 85% of american households will have gotten a $1400 rescue checks. to give more -- to give one more example, for the average family of two parents and two children making combined income of $110,000 a year. that's going to add $5600 for them. $5,600 they get. and the plan does more. it extends unemployment insurance for the 11 million american unemployed and any unemployed in the near term. it will help hundreds of thousands of small business us keep doors open, which makes a gigantic difference in neighborhoods and communities, if you have a drug store, a beauty shop, a hardware store. it's the center ch small communities and gets our schools the resources they need to hope safely. it providing the biggest investment in child care since world war ii. and provides food and nutrition help for the millions of families to keep them from going hungry, keeping a roof over their heads. and expands health care coverage and lowers health care costs for so many people. and it will cut child poverty in half in this country. that's the estimate. child poverty will be cut in half as a consequence of what's in this recovery act. and it will generate economic growth for the entire nation. that's why major economists left, right and center support this plan. even wall street has agreed, according to moodies by the end of this year in law will spur our economy to create 7 million new jobs. and it does one more thing. it focuses on rebuilding the backbone of this country, working families, the middle class, people who built in country. but as i said last week, it's one thing to pass a historic piece of legislation like the american rescue plan. and it's quite another to implement it. and the devil is in the details. it requires fastidious oversight, to make sure the relief arrives quickly, equitiably and efficiently with no waste or fraud, in your bank account, in your mailbox, to the local business, in your community, and to your child's school. look, i've been here before. when president obama and i came to office in 2009 he put me in charge of implementing of recovery act which helped us recover and rebuild during the great recession. i was authorized to put together a team, including kiloo an accountability board with inspectors general from different agencies that were reflected by the act, to make sure we got the roughly $800 billion out into the countryside by the book and quickly over 18 months. i talked to literally almost -- over 150 mayors, all governors except one, constantly going over the granular detail of the implementation of this legislation -- that legislation. and the effort put us on a path from crisis to recovery to resurgence. accor accordingly to the oversight brody of inspector general they said we got it done with less than 0.2% of waste or fraud. that's not what the previous administration did though. when the congress passed the cares act. the cares act -- the congress created a committee of inspectors general to make sure every penney of that money was spent as it was directed. one of the first things the previous administration did was fire the head of the superior general committee. so when congress passed what was intended to be a small small business relief program it instead became a free for all for well-connected companies. and mainstream -- mainstream businesses from hardware stores to beauty salons that needed the help most were left behind. 40 oh thousand are now gone. we will not let that happen this time. i learned from my experience implementing the recovery act. just how important it is to have someone who can manage all the moving parts with efficiency, speed and integrity and accountability. that's the sort of management we've seen in our fight against the virus with jeff zients, our covid response coordinator. today, i'm pleased to announce and introduce another gifted manager to coordinate our implementation of the american rescue plan, gene sperling. gene will be on the phone with mayors, governors, red states, blue states, a source of constant communication, a source of guidance and support, and above all, a source of accountability for all of us to get the job done. gene has been here before. the only person in the history to serve as director of economic -- of the national economic council twice. he led successful efforts to deliver relief to mall businesses and unemployed americans in the obama-biden administration and in the clinton administration. i spoke with gene earlier today, alongside my economic team. he is ready to get to work. in fact, he has hit the ground running. and together we're going to make sure that the bifurcates of the american rescue plan go out quickly and directly to the american people where they belong. let me close with this. help is here. and hope is here. and real and tangible ways. we're days away from 100 million shots in the arms of millions of americans. that's the way -- that's the way on the way to get every single american access to the vaccine. 100 million checks going into the pockets and/or direct deposits going into the pockets of americans on the way to a million more -- millions more americans. that's real progress. we have a lot more to do. we have to prove to the american people that their government can deliver for them and do it without waste or fraud. that we can vaccinate the nation, that we can get our kids safely back in school, that we can get our economy back on track by helping hundreds of thousands of small businesses open and stay open, and that we can give people of this nation a fighting chance again with relief checks, lower child care costs, lower health care costs and so much more. that's our job. that's our responsibility. and the pro will be growing the economy as well. we're going to have to stay on top of every dollar spent through the american rescue plan. and that's what we're going to do. we can do this. we will do this. god bless you all. help is on the way. and may god protect our troops. thank you very very much. >> back now with me, katelyn, katherine and gloria. >> i'm hearing a lot of reports. >> actually, let's listen. >> from serious reporters like you saying that. i discussed it with my team and they say the thing that has more impact than anything trump would say to the maga folks is what the local doctor -- what the local preachers, what the local people in the community say. so i urge -- i urge all local docs and ministers and priests and everything to talk about why -- why it's important to get -- to get the vaccine and even after that until everyone is in fact vaccinated to wear in mask. thank you. >> thank you, guys. >> i'm back with katelyn, gloria and katherine. i mean, that was interesting. the part of the thing that i found interesting there at the end -- and we can touch on in after talking about what's in the bill. he is saying he wants people who obviously don't support him to talk to someone they trust about getting the vaccine. let's talk about what he said, katherine about what is in this huge almost $2 trillion package that he and the vice-president are going to be prompting here in the coming weeks. he really -- this this is -- he really sort of described this as a social safety net, as a middle class reconstruction package as much as, say, covid relief. >> yes. absolutely. one of the lessons from the obama years was that you don't get credit for safety net responses that are either too clungy or slow for the public to use. i'm thinking things like the anti-foreclosure programs or ones that are too invisible for people to notice. things like the payroll tax cut that was passed under obama. biden wants credit. he wants people to know both in the middle class, people who are lower income, that help is on the way, help is coming from him and they want them to be aware of the great whole of government effort that is being done on their behalf. this is about creating a well-oiled machine, making sure the implementation is there, but also making sure that machine is very visible. and that was his goal today, was telling people this is what's in the bill. i'm enumerating all the ways we are helping. we are getting them out swiftly speedily, i promise. we have to wait and see whether that happens, and minimal waste, fraud and abuse. he is trying to protect himself against the usual republican attacks about a major stimulus package like this. >> i wonder, gloria, for folks getting these checks, you have, like, let's say a single mom, two kids, this is a lot of mona just went into their bank account. it is -- did you can't miss it. i mean this is a chunk of change. and it seems like he is capitalizing on this moment, which is the thousands of dollars going to families. >> well, this is about government working for you. this is not about government being the deep state, government hiding things from you, government not telling you the truth -- which we heard a lot of that over the last four years. this is about a government that can work for you, which is why as katherine was saying, the implementation is so important, because it has to work for you in a way that people request see and say, oh, yeah, that money wasn't misused it's actually people's tax dollars going to work to help americans. and, you know, i think that is the message we heard the other night from the president when he gave his speech. it's the message today. this is your government. i'm the president of the united states. but this is your government helping you, helping your children. and over the weekend--en- and katelyn can talk about this. what was interesting to me is the white house put out emails from people who started getting their checks. and telling them exactly -- and tweets telling them exactly how they were using the money, pay down the mortgage, pay for their car, feed their family and they're trying to sort of, you know, anecdote after anecdote let people know how it's being used. >> we do have breaking news katelyn i want to touch upon with you here. maybe something we knew going on at the time but a cdc review has found that some of the trump administration cdc guiseens was not grounded in science. if said the review found some guidance used less direct language than available evidence supported. i mean, we saw this happening at the time that what appeared to be the scientific guidance. and we heard reporting on this repeatedly that it was being changed by people who were not scientists to be more in line with what president trump was saying, you know, politically. but this is the -- this is a review. this is official. >> and this started basically day one of the pandemic. remember last year when the cdc official was putting out warnings about what was coming our way with the pandemic as we were flying back with former president trump from a trip to india. and he was enraged by that because of what it did to the stock market. his influence over what the cdc was saying and telling the american people about the pandemic started from basically day one backup now we have a cdc spokesperson saying yes there was guidance that came out wasn't as specific as it could have been based on the science because of undue influence that was happening over cdc documents. it also says there were a few documents coming out that were purported from the drchlt dc but not from the cdc. using their maim and credibility but wasn't their document according to what the spokesperson is now saying. this is something we saw in the trump administration with a lot of different agencies where they were trying to claim that there were deep state officials working against former president trump. and they were do wlag former president trump, president trump at the time wanted. but of course this is where it's incredibly critical. because lives could have been cost because of the guidance if it wasn't as specific as it could have been. if it was more vague because officials did not want to put people in a panic, which is something president trump said at the time, which of course we have seen how that played out. just seeing this, you're right, it confirms basically what we were seeing happening in realtime. but that doesn't make it any less stunning that we are now learning that cdc guidance could have been more specific than it was and possibly more instructive and of course possibly saved more lives. >> gloria you're -- go on, gloria. >> one of the things so striking to me about "the washington post" story is that there was guidance and we remember it issued in august that discouraged the testing of people without covid symptoms, eep though they had been in contact with an infected person. and we now know that, of course, you need to tested. and you may be asymptomatic if you're younger, et cetera. but the discouragement of testing -- you know where that comes from directly. the president of the united states at that time was saying, some people like testing. some people don't. remember that? he was the one who didn't. and he didn't want as many people to get tested because he didn't want numbers to go up. and that's what that was all about. >> he thought testing revealed the number. >> yeah. >> what we learned was hospitalizations and deaths really revealed the pandemic. and those are numbers you can't hide from. >> yeah. >> you guys, thank you for joining me to talk about what is a big day at the white house for the covid 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let. what they believe happened is you can see there everything happened underneath that overpass you can see in that picture there right after 9 "a." this is downtown san diego, right by san diego city college. and what they believe happened is that the driver was driving through there, ended up on the sidewalk where he hit several pedestrians. before coming back on the road and stopping by the time officials got there they said that it looked like this driver was a 71-year-old man driving a volvo wagon seemed to be trying to render aid. at this point he is investigated for driving while impaired. when you take a listen to some of the people on scene it sounds like it was a quick but horrific event. take a listen to some of the witnesses. >> the way he was riding down the sidewalk it was like, he didn't take his foot off the gas until he got to the other side of the street. i'm a witness to that because i was riding on the front of it. i'm like, whoa, is this guy ever going to stop? it was a nightmare like really quick nightmare, you know. >> i saw that wagon move over and then it's just things started happening up and dragging and horrific. >> now one other interesting note is that the police chief said that they had also received a call, not long before this, about a mile away with the description matching this vehicle but they're not sure yet to say that it is exactly this driver. someone may have been trying to alert them about. but we know three people lost lives and two in critical condition, brianna. >> stephanie, we know you will keep an eye on this story. stephanie elam in california for us. the white house revealing more today about president biden's mindset on embattled new york governor andrew cuomo. jen spak judge says the president fijds allegations that the cuomo harassed a number of former female staffers troubling and lard to read. biden urged everyone to wait and see what the investigation brings. new york vote resist are speaking out. more now 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